LEADERSHIP

Vijay R. Bandekar

Founder,
President & CEO

Vijay R. Bandekar

Vijay’s background includes Research and Development, Consulting and managing early stage technology companies. Prior to InteliOps, Inc, Vijay co-founded SmartShip, Inc. and served as the Chief Technology Officer. He has over 3 decades of experience in Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence. Vijay has worked with CISCO, FannieMae, Verizon, Countrywide Mortgage (Bank of America), Siemens AG of Germany, Inference Corporation, American Express and AdForce. Vijay has played major roles in start-up companies such as AdForce where he built the core engine for Internet ad banner serving. At SmartShip, Vijay has dedicated his efforts to build a successful technology company in the shipping and fulfillment arena. Vijay’s contribution to SmartShip is not only limited to his patent pending innovations but also in raising capital from the seed stage through its subsequent rounds of funding. At Siemens AG, Germany Vijay has successfully conducted government-funded projects including German Ministry for Research and Technology and European Community Technology Consortiums. Vijay has published a dozen papers in the area of Artificial Intelligence. Vijay has a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from BHU Institute of Technology, India, Master of Science degree in industrial technology from Eastern Michigan University and a Doctorate degree in computer science from the Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Germany.

Chandresekar N

Chandrashekar Nanjundaswamy (Chandra) has over 15 years of experience in Information Technology. For the past 5 years Chandra has helped InteliOps deliver AI applications at CISCO, Wells Fargo and CIGNA. Chandra is the lead architect and senior developer; he manages InteliOps cloud computing resources at Telepacific data center in Santa Ana, CA. Chandra has expertise in Java EE, JBoss Drools rules engine, Xen hypervisor, OpenStack, Python, Natural Language Processing and Neural Networks. He gets involved in all stages from concept to realization in software life cycle process. Chandra has strong technical, analytical, communication and team skills. He has effectively interacted with cross-functional teams within several vertical industries such as networking, health care and finance. Chandra has a Post Graduate Degree in IT from Symbiosis, Bangalore, India. (2011), a Bachelors in Computer Applications from Annamalai University (2007), and a Diploma in Electronics and Communication, KIET polytechnic, Bangalore, India. (2000).

Suren Kulkarni

ENTERPRISE SALES Pune, India
Suren is a senior executive with 20+ years of experience in building and executing end to end GTM and customer acquisition strategies. During his career, he has operated in multiple geographies including EMEA and the Indian subcontinent and successfully led sales & solutions teams for leading global IT organizations. He has multi-faceted experience of managing P&Ls for products, solutions, systems integration and outsourcing business. For startups and growth stage companies, he brings extensive leadership, deep global market insights and industry experience to help them build a strong brand and create the market value to make them ready for investments.

His expertise spans across building and managing new business, new market entry & operations and building high revenue streams through new business opportunities. By building high performance teams and expanding portfolios, he has played pivotal roles in successfully transforming businesses and making them profitable. He has worked closely with young companies, from seed level and was instrumental in developing business strategies, driving growth and successfully securing investments.

Suren started his career as an entrepreneur and after a successful exit, he joined large IT organizations.

Prior to Knoesis, he was Director of Sales at iGATE Europe, managing their manufacturing vertical business. He also worked with a supply chain startup, and played a significant role in securing investments. Before that, he was managing the telecommunications vertical business for Satyam and increased the unit revenue multifold over a period of 3 years. Working with a large business group in Middle East, he was instrumental in establishing their software business unit and later transforming it into a leading software solutions provider in the region.

Suren holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering and an MBA in Financial Management. He is based in Pune, India. He is an active badminton player and an avid football fan.

Anil Deshpande

Mr. Deshpande is an entrepreneur and a real estate developer based in Orlando, Florida. He has 40 years of commercial, industrial and residential development and construction experience. From 1972 to 1983 he was involved in a wide range of commercial and industrial projects including hospital, office buildings, hotel, institutional buildings, prisons, and industrial plants. He served as a project manager of the Orlando International Airport.

Mr. Deshpande co-founded Park Square Homes in 1984, growing it to be the 69th largest home builder in the United States, with over 1200 homes sold in 2004. Mr. Deshpande was the CEO of the company for 20 years and sold his interests at the end of 2004.

Since, then Mr. Deshpande has been involved in commercial projects in central Florida and India. Mr. Deshpande is a founding Board Member of Seaside National Bank and Trust based in Orlando. He also is a partner in two IT firms.

Mr. Deshpande has been involved with many art and philanthropic foundations both in the United States and India. He started the Indian Study Center at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. He has been on the Boards of the Indian Chamber of Commerce, as well as the Hindu Society. He established a Family Foundation and contributes to many activities in India and the United States in the areas of Education and other social interests.

Mr. Deshpande has a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from M.S.U. in Baroda, India and a M.S. degree in Construction Management from the University of Florida. He also has an Executive MBA from Harvard Business School. Mr. Deshpande resides in Orlando with his wife Chitra. They have two daughters and one son.

Raj Kulkarni

BOARD MEMBER Boca Raton, FL
Raj has 25+ years of global experience in the software industry, working with early and growth stage companies as an operating executive, investor, strategic advisor and mentor. His passion and proven track record are in converting ideas into businesses, opening new markets and creating focus on execution towards successful exits.

Prior to Ridgeback, Raj founded and led GemStone Systems, an enterprise infrastructure software company that pioneered the management of fast data in memory through virtualized, real-time data grids. GemStone was acquired by VMware in 2010.

Raj is a founding charter member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) Portland chapter, a limited partner in Bridge City Ventures (Portland Seed Fund) and Founders’ Co-op, a seed stage investment fund in Seattle, WA as well as an active member of the Indian Angel Network. He has a proven track record of multiple successful exits and serves on the board of directors of several fast growing start ups in diverse verticals across the globe.

Raj started his career at Servio Logic, a pioneer in object databases and played a key role in its acquisition in August 2000 for $250M+.

Raj is a highly committed leader with a can-do attitude, equal parts technical and business strategy, open to change, able to enthuse, influence, mentor and empower colleagues and customers alike to grow, take risks and succeed.

Born in Pune, India, Raj has a BE from Pune University and an MS in Manufacturing Engineering from the University of Florida. Raj splits his time between Portland (Oregon) and Boca Raton (Florida) with his wife and their aspiring tennis player daughter.

Scott Fogarty

BOARD MEMBER Boca Raton, FL
Scott has been a leader of turnaround and start-up media companies, has led buyout transactions with total value of $1.2 billion and acted as an investor, advisor and leader to young growth businesses.

Currently, Scott is an investor in, and advisor to PlanetHS, Tales2Go, BizHive, e-Medical University and Innovations International.

As an operating executive, Scott served as CEO of Films Media Group, the largest library of educational video in North America, where he led a transformational business turnaround. He was also the founding president of Software on Demand, distributing software electronically via satellite, and Zuma ed, a digital content provider for K-12 instructors.

As a corporate development executive at Primedia, Inc. (a KKR portfolio company, NYSE: PRM) Scott led more than 30 buyout transactions of online, video, event and print media companies. Early in his career, he was a sales management leader in broadcast television. Scott earned an MBA from Columbia and an AB from Harvard University.

InteliOps has expertise in Business Rules Engine, Machine learning, Distributed Computing, Advanced Virtualization and Cloud Computing. InteliOps has extensive professional experience with over 100 years of combined background in applying rules engines, machine learning, natural language processing, neural networks, and other relevant AI technologies to mission critical enterprise applications. We have successfully architected, built and enhanced enterprise AI applications at marquee firms such as Siemens, American Express, Verizon, Bank of America, CISCO, DoD research labs, and Fannie Mae.flatic

While developing mission critical enterprise applications at some of the most successful Fortune 500 companies, we realized that though these organizations are desperate to build AI powered enterprise applications, they face some serious obstacles due to two major factors

Absence of comprehensive and integrated AI development platform – Tools available in the market are discrete and can hardly be used to build enterprise applications

Availability of skilled resources

TO ADDRESS THESE MAJOR ISSUES, INTELIOPS HAS BUILT A COMPREHENSIVE ENTERPRISE AI DEVELOPMENT PLATFORM CONSISTING OF

An “Integrated Development Environment” that allows organizations to develop, test and deploy AI powered applications in the same environment

Disrupt the traditional software development processes, by bringing proven AI techniques to the masses through a unified platform, and facilitate rapid adaptation of readily available AI technology to empower existing workforce!